Trust Based Relationship In Personal Selling

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Unlike traditional selling, businesses focus on the importance customer value and keeping customers' loyalty. With that, businesses are willing to work with customers this buyers of goods and services understand and admire the value provided by the organization's offering, rather than trying to influence immediate purchase by pushing and forcing customers. With this approach, chapter one of the sells book mainly focuses on personal selling and trust- based relationship.
Personal selling as the book states, is an interpersonal interaction between buyers and sellers to initiate, develop or enhance customer relationship. it occurs in a situation where someone with a product or service is trying to sell that product or service to another person …show more content…

Also known as partnering, relationship selling focuses on building trust. Basically, trust-based relationship providing opportunities, and adding value to the customer’s business over an extended period. There is no trust in the relationship if the customer(s) feels he or holds no value to an organization. customer value will always be determined by customers’ perception of what they get in exchange for what they have to give up. In the simplest situations, customers buy a product in exchange for money. In a buy and seller relationship, trust plays a very important role. Because trust is the binding force that provides the buyer with high expectations that a satisfying exchange will occur which drives the buyer to a decision and buy the product or service. For example, when I worked at mc Donald's, every morning a woman named Elyssa would order coffee from me. One morning, I camo to work and found Elyssa arguing with an employee about cold coffee. As usual, I would brew and serve her fresh coffee. When finally served a new cup of coffee and told her to check if the coffee was fresh, she responded and said "I don’t need to, because I trust you." when you serve a customer with gratitude, show the customer that you care and willing to meet his …show more content…

Each individual strategy is design to get the customer to be more detailed or more specific toward the product in mind. One of many other strategies is the Open-end questions strategy, also called nondirective questions, are designed to let the customer respond freely. That is, the customer is not limited to one- or two-word answers, this strategy lets the customer give richer and more detailed information to describe a product. For example; ● How do you feel when you put on these shoes? or “Describe the haircut style you want."
Another strategy is the Closed-end question; it is design to limit the customers’ response to one or two words. This type of question is typically used to confirm or clarify information gleaned from previous responses to open-end questions. Question could be; is it the black or the red? Or how many?
And also, the tactical question. It when a Question is used to shift or redirect the topic of discussion when the discussion gets off course or when a line of questioning proves to be of little interest or value. “How do you feel about _____?” “Do you see the merits of _____?” and “What do you think _____?”
Questions are made to find answers and solution to a problem. You cannot give a patient medicine until doctor knows about the patient's illness. same way you cannot offer or sell a product to a customer unless you know what he or she I looking for.
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